Here's a link to sign a pettion showing that you believe Progressive Talk radio is an important voice which needs to be heard on the airwaves in Central Ohio. Please do not let the talking points of Conservative Talk have their claims go unchallenged. We need the presence of political-oriented [...]
Bumped up from the Forums. Progressive media outlets like WVKO are a critical part of the equation of building a lasting Democratic majority in Ohio, and WVKO won't survive without more support. -Jeff
Buying ads on WVKO 1580 AM reveals to the Progressive community that a Democratic candidate understands the importance [...]
How predictable that the Dispatch would endorse Steve Stivers, a bank lobbyist for Congress. The Republican deregulation policies are working great.
[...]Democrats and progressives need to obliterate the phoney talking points originating from Newt Gingerich. The media is all too willing to confuse the issues. Air America Host Thom Hartmann and Congressman Peter DeFazio slay Republican talking points. I recommmend reading the transcripts of the following interview:
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Welcome to Columbus and a hat tip for helping to organize the Justice Revival this week which is focused on issues of poverty.
You stated that the "highest levels" of the U.S. govenment have instituted a torture program during a recent local public radio program. You also said that you oppose [...]
President Bush and the failure of Reaganomics will ruin the "Republican" brand name for at least a generation. So now is the time for progressives to join the Democratic Party and start showing up.
Monied interests will be increasingly crossing over to the Democratic Party as they see the writing on the wall. [...]
Rep. Space voted to protect our security and civil liberties by supporting H.R. 3773, the Conyers and Reyes Admendment. My understanding is that the Admendment strips retro-active immunity for Telecoms related to domestic spying from a Senate bill.
The Democratic Leadership showed courage standing up to President Bush and special interests [...]
Jane Hamsher at Firedoglake is reporting that it looks like the Bush Admin and Telecoms will get what they want---an up and down vote in the House on retroactive immunity for domestic spying.
Rep. Zach Space has been identified as a Blue Dog Dem who has been actively pushing for immunity. Patriotic [...]
Discard the notion that Gov. Strickland delivered Ohio for Sen. Clinton. The numbers are showing that enough Republicans and Independents heeded the advice of wingnuts on the radio and requested Democratic ballots to vote for Clinton. Bob Fitrakis and Harvey Wasserman lay it out at the Free Press website .
I [...]
This week Obama ads began running on the only Progressive Talk station in the state of Ohio, WVKO 1580 AM , in Columbus. Advertising during Progressive Talk programming is smart. The audience is almost exclusively registered, energized Democratic voters and such ad-buys supports stations that support them.
Democratic voters put alot of [...]
Individuals can go to www.nrcat.org and sign a Statement of Conscience against torture. You can also encourage religious organizations to join NRCAT. All the info. needed is available at the NRCAT website.
The National Religious Campaign Against Torture (NRCAT) is a growing membership organization committed to ending U.S.-sponsored torture, and [...]
Again, here's a plan that could at least be used by the Ohio Legislature as leverage for mortgage lenders to renegotiate loans and keep a roof over the heads of low-income home owners in Ohio without bailing out bloated bankers in the process:
Homeownership: The Fast Path to Poverty
By Dean Baker
Monday 12 November [...]
Former Secretary of State Colin Powell will give a motivational speach at Nationwide Arena in Columbus on November 13. He has offered tepid criticism of the Bush Administration's foreign policy. But Powell is a prominent statesman who could make front-page news across the country by saying that most U.S. troops [...]
The Preamble is essentially the Mission Statement of the United States. The rest of the Constitution is a framework giving the government powers to realize what is layed out in the Preamble:
We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, [...]
Most of the colonists sided with the King at the onset of the war. From the British perspective, they were dealing with terrorists made up from a minority of the American colonists. How did the Brits react? By executing people with summary judgements, military operations with collateral damage, torture, etc. The heavy-handed [...]
simply someone who believes that government should play a role in enabling people to reach their fullest potential.
A conservative is someone who believes that the role of government is limited to punishing evil people and to supply protection against other evil people.
Any other descriptions out there?
[...]Senator Voinovich is still willing to do the bidding of the Bush Administration and cast purely partisan votes. Last night, the Senate came up only a few votes short of the 60 votes required for Congress to pass a no-confidence provision regarding Alberto Gonzales' job. All the "I can't recalls" and [...]
There's no Ohio tie to this story but it illustrates how corporate-friendly Democratic Leadership Council (DLC) types like James Carville operate. The Wall Street Journal had a front page story June 6 headlined, "Letters for 'Scooter' Don't Sway Judge." Some of the letters pleading for leniency for Scooter Libby's conviction for obstruction [...]
The main-stream media rarely gives voice to progressive criticisms of the proposed immigration bill. Progressives don't want a two-tier labor market in the U.S., with non-citizen workers with few rights pitted against citizen workers with full rights.
The path to citizenship in the proposed bill is so torturous that few people [...]
Republican operative Mark Weaver sold his "school-choice" snake oil as a guest on WOSU-TV's "Columbus On The Record" this week. To hear Weaver, it sounds like school-choice is the Republicans' ONLY solution to what's ailing Ohio's education system.
Which begs the question--has Weaver utilized school-choice to enroll his kids in a charter school? [...]
Sean Hannity and Oil Company CEOs blame rising gas prices on the lack of refinery capacity, which is actually true. The Big Lie is scapegoating environmentalists as the reason refinery capacity hasn't kept up with consumer demand. The truth is that the oil companies hatched a plan about ten years ago to limit refining [...]
The newspaper, Pasadena Now, has hired two reporters from India to cover City Council proceedings as a cost-cutting measure. It appears that the outsourcing phenomena is beginning to hit the media. Let's hope this prompts much more media attention to the outsourcing issue. The workplace is like Survivor Island for many workers [...]
The evidence clearly exists to justify impeachment. Bush/Cheney brag about skirting the Fourth Admendment and FISA laws and that's just for starters.
Impeachment of Bush and Cheney would not have to produce a Nancy Pelosi Presidency. President Bush could nominate a replacement for V.P. Cheney after Cheney's removal. There would be [...]
Here's a story that flew under the media's radar but was reported by the Marine Corps Times by Rick Maze, under the headline: "Experts: Force Increases May Not be Enough."
The article reported about testimony heard by the Senate Armed Services Committee April 17 that increasing the size of the Army and [...]
Wal-Mart's relentless exploitation of weak U.S. labor laws thwarts union formation and violates the rights of its U.S. workers, the group Human Rights Watch said in a report recently released.
The highly critical report of Wal-Mart alleges that the retailer used security cameras to spy on union sympathizers and planted supervisors next [...]
I recently heard some startling information on Air America Radio. Princeton professor and former Federal Reserve vice chairman, Alan Blinder, is bringing awareness to the issue of jobs being outsourced from the U.S.
The former economic advisor to Bill Clinton says that up to 40 million jobs are vulnerable to be [...]
The headline on the front-page of Friday's Cols. Dispatch was shocking, "Congress Sets Up Iraq Showdown." Excuse me, President Bush is the one setting up a showdown by promising to veto the emergency funding bill that Congress is sending him.
The Bush Administration is responsible for the need for emergency [...]
Alan Johnson wrote an interesting front page article in Sunday's Columbus Dispatch. He lists what a dollar in federal taxes gets you. Princeton economist and NYT Op-Ed Columnist did the same thing in an essay he wrote in 1996 ironically titled: "The Lost Fig Leaf: Why the Conservative Revolution Failed." [...]
WARF-AM will drop primarily Air America Radio for sports talk even though the market is currently saturated with that format. That leaves no Progressive Talk stations in the Swing State. Clear Channel dropped Progressive Talk in Columbus and Cincy in the last few months.
Many Progressive Talk enthusiasts suspect that Clear [...]
